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A Sensation Novel (In Three Volumes) A SENSATION NOVEL (IN THREE VOLUMES) By W.S. Gilbert Dramatis Personae Author / Sir Ruthven Glenaloon / Bus Conductor ... Baritone Gripper / The Spirit of Romance ... Bass Herbert ... Tenor Lady Rockalda ... Mezzo or Contralto Alice Grey ... Soprano VOL. 1 Frontispiece: A crazy room on Bankside, overlooking the Thames. Moonlight. No. 1: Music for Curtain. The AUTHOR discovered seated at a table writing. He has finished his first volume, and is at a loss how to begin the second. AUTHOR: I do not know how it is, but I cannot get on with this novel. I've been nearly a week at work, and I have only just finished the first volume. A week! Why, I ought to have finished three volumes in a week! Am I not assisted by supernatural agency? Have I not entered into a compact with the Demon of Romance, by which I am able to turn out fifty, three-volumed novels per annum? And, on the strength of that compact, haven't I entered into an agreement with my publishers to supply them, under a heavy forfeiture, with that number of sensation novels every year until further notice? To be sure I have. But here I am in a fix. Well, shall I hesitate to summon my ghostly adviser to my aid? Certainly not! Now for the incantation that will bring him to my side. (He takes a huge saucepan and places the following ingredients into it during the Incantation.) No. 2: Incantation. (Spoken through music.) Take of best quill pens a score, Take of ink a pint or more, Take of foolscap half a ream, Take, oh take, a convict's dream, Lynch pin, fallen from a carriage, Forged certificate of marriage, Money wrongly won at whist, Finger of a bigamist, Cobweb from mysterious vaults, Arsenic sold as Epsom Salts, Pocket-knife with blood-stained blade, Telegram, some weeks delayed, Parliamentary committee, Joint stock panic in the city, Trial at Old Bailey bar, Take a Newgate Calendar, Take a common jury's finding, Take a most attractive binding, Hold the saucepan by the handle, Boil it on a penny candle. (The SPIRIT OF ROMANCE appears. AUTHOR falls on his knees, terrified.) SPIRIT: I am here! AUTHOR: You are! SPIRIT: What do you want with me? AUTHOR: Help, I have just finished the first volume of my novel - and I don't know how to begin the second. By our compact, I had leave to summon you whenever I found myself in a difficulty, and you promised to help me out of it. SPIRIT: Have you employed the characters I have lent you? - the virtuous governess, the unemployed young Sunday School teacher, the sensation detective, the wicked baronet, the beautiful fiend with the yellow hair and the panther-like movement? AUTHOR: I have! SPIRIT: You have made the virtuous governess in love with the Sunday School teacher? You have made her persecuted by the wicked baronet? AUTHOR: Yes! SPIRIT: The yellow-haired fiend with the panther-like movement is his accomplice? AUTHOR: She is! SPIRIT: Have you made her fall in love with the Sunday School teacher? AUTHOR: Head and ears. SPIRIT: And he treats her with disdain? AUTHOR: He does! SPIRIT: Humph! Have you obeyed my advice as to diet and eaten nothing but pork chops and cold plum pudding? AUTHOR: Nothing! Look at me. SPIRIT: You have slept with your head lower than your body? AUTHOR: Every night. SPIRIT: You have put live shrimps down your back to make your flesh creep? AUTHOR: Pints of them! There are some there now (wriggles). SPIRIT: You have read the "Illustrated Police News"? AUTHOR: Through and through. SPIRIT: You are in my power! These creatures whom I have lent you are slaves to my will. Refuse to obey me, and I withdraw them altogether. They are accepted types, and you can't get on without them. AUTHOR: True! But tell me, what is the nature of the power you exercise over them. SPIRIT: It is very peculiar. They are all creatures who, in their mortal condition, have been guilty of positive or negative crime, and they are compelled to personate, under my direction, those stock characters of the sensation novelist which are most opposed to their individual tastes and inclinations. AUTHOR: Then they have an existence apart from that with which they are endowed in the novel? SPIRIT: They have! Apart from it, but eventually subject to it; that is to say, they have wishes, schemes and plans of their own, but the fulfilment of these wishes is, for the time being, in the hands of the Author, to whom they are entrusted. They have the power of coming to life at the end of the first and second volumes, and immediately before the last chapter of the third, to talk over the events that have taken place, and to arrange plans for the future - plans which are too often frustrated by the Author's arbitrary will. This is not generally known. AUTHOR: Do I understand you to say that at the end of the first volume they come to life? SPIRIT: They do! AUTHOR: I have just finished the first volume. SPIRIT: It is now five minutes to twelve - at twelve they will be here! AUTHOR (going): I've an appointment in the City which I had entirely overlooked. SPIRIT: Won't you stay and see them? AUTHOR: Thanks, no. One supernatural being is as much as I feel equal to at a time. I'd rather go. No. 3a: DUET - SPIRIT and AUTHOR. SPIRIT: In half a minute they'll be here! AUTHOR: I shake and quake with sense of fear! SPIRIT: The Baronet - the maiden fair, The Panther with the yellow hair; AUTHOR: The Tutor, too, with fate ill-starred, Detective, too, from Scotland Yard, BOTH: All will be here! SPIRIT: They'll be plotting - they'll be planning - With the cunning of a Canning, AUTHOR: All my plans they'll be upsetting, Novel schemes they'll be begetting, SPIRIT: Both the baronet and the maiden, And the tutor, sorrow-laden, AUTHOR: And the panther with invective, 'Gainst the Scotland Yard Detective, BOTH: All will be here! AUTHOR: And this is so? SPIRIT: Yes! to the letter. AUTHOR: I think I'll go! SPIRIT: I think you'd better! BOTH: They will be here. (Exeunt) No. 3b: Melodrame. (Enter Lady Rockalda.) ROCKALDA: So the first volume's at an end, and once more we, the puppets of a sensation author's will, are launched upon our eventful careers. In the course of the ten years during which I have been compelled to obey my prolific author's will, I, the beautiful yellow-haired fiend of sensational fiction, have worked my wicked way through no less than seventy-five sensation novels! I shudder when I think of the amount of evil I have done. I shudder still more, when I think of the amount of evil I have still to do! But I must not repine for I have deserved it all. When I was a mortal I was the indulgent mother of five unruly boys, an easy-going peace-loving mother. I allowed them to have their own way, and as a punishment for my culpable neglect I am compelled to serve my Author's will, during the term of his natural life! It's a hard fate, but I have deserved it, and I must not repine. No. 4: SONG - LADY ROCKALDA. Like a motherly old lady, With demure old-fashioned ways, In a cottage snug and shady, I should like to spend my days. Through the village I could toddle, To relieve the old and lame; I would be the very model Of a motherly old dame. But my tastes and inclinations Must be hidden out of sight; Oh! Forgive my lamentations, I am miserable quite. For propriety's affliction Guilty deeds I must prepare; I'm the lovely fiend of fiction, With the yellow, yellow hair. With voice and gait mysterious, Expression fixed and serious, And manner most imperious, I work my charge. In love unbridled, as in hate, I wheedle, coax and fascinate, Then murder, rob, assassinate Mankind at large. Like a motherly old lady, With demure, old-fashioned ways, In a cottage snug and shady, I should like to end my days. But for innocents' affliction Guilty deeds I must prepare; I'm the lovely fiend of fiction, With the yellow, yellow hair. No. 5: Melodrame. (Enter SIR RUTHVEN GLENALOON, dressed as an Officer of Footguards.) RUTHVEN: Rockalda, this is a melancholy meeting. ROCKALDA: It is, but we have deserved it all. RUTHVEN: We have, but it is very hard to be a wicked baronet against one's will. Why, I was the softest hearted fellow alive - when I was alive. ROCKALDA: But soft hearted as you were, you did a deal of mischief in your time. RUTHVEN: I did! Let me confess my misdeeds: I never saw a beggar in the streets but I gave him a penny - shocking, wasn't it? ROCKALDA: Terrible, indeed! But you did worse than that - you - you encouraged organ grinders. RUTHVEN: I did, I did! but spare me your reproaches, for now I see the enormity of my misconduct, and I am undergoing a bitter expiation. ROCKALDA: Yes, you are the wicked baronet of sensational fiction, and it serves you right. RUTHVEN: But where are we? ROCKALDA: This is a ruined summer house, overlooking the Thames. The river runs under the window and beneath the floor, which is full of traps - which open with springs, and many murders have been committed in this very room.
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